I am trying to build a Cucumber BDD framework with multiple step definition files. I am still trying to understand how to use picocontainer to run the step definition files. My problem is that once I have added the picocontainer jar into a project's build path, when executing the test runner it is unable to find any scenarios or steps.
Console
Java project build path
My project contains:
• A feature file
• 2 step definition files
• 1 test runner
• Utilities package with a webdriver initializer method
My feature file has the following steps:
The first 2 gherkin steps are glued to methods in following step definition class:
package stepDefinitions;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import cucumber.api.java.en.Given;
public class SD_HomePage {
WebDriver driver;
@Given ("^the user is on the websites homepages$")
public void user_is_on_the_websites_homepage() {
driver = utilities.WebDriverInitializer.openWebdriver("Chrome");
driver.get("https://www.forExample.com/");
}
@Given("^then clicks on AboutUs title$")
public void then_clicks_on_AboutUs_title() throws Throwable {
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@href='/en/about-us'][1]")).click();
}
}
The third gherkin step is glued to this separate step def class:
package stepDefinitions;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import cucumber.api.java.en.When;
public class SD_AboutUsPage {
WebDriver driver;
@When("^the user clicks on Contact widget$")
public void the_user_clicks_on_Contact_widget() throws Throwable {
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@class='icon-envelope listCta__img'][1]")).click();
}
}
When executing the test from the test runner no scenarios or steps will be found by the runner:
package testRunners;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;
import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;
@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(features = "Features", glue = "stepDefinitions")
public class TestRun_NewsletterForm {
}
Console results from the Testrunner
However, when I remove the picocontainer the scenario and steps will be found. This will leave me with the original problem of not being able to make use of a shared state Webdriver.
Test Run after picocontainer jar is removed
I am aware that in this project I have not yet set up a class that will contain the shared state Webdriver, and constructors on the step definition pages. I have another project that has that is affected by this same issue but I felt that it would make this issue more complicated if I used that example.
